Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fix You." Zagri got down to more serious work when the committee began its voting. In the first critical vote, a ten-man "swing" group of Democrats rejected a union-made plan to bury the bill in subcommittee. Less than an hour later, one of Zagri's ever-busy committee leaks supplied him with a tally on each member's vote. That same day he telephoned union leaders in each swing man's home district, urged protests against the Congressman's "betrayal" of labor. Commanding one A.F.L.-C.I.O. Steelworker official to put the heat...
...snapped. Zagri brazened it out: ''I'm going to get you in line." Udall exploded as never before in Congress, raked Zagri over until the lobbyist obsequiously agreed that he had voted right. Another Congressman was treated to anonymous threats ("We're going to fix you") on his home and office phones. Oregon's Democratic Edith Green took her own Zagri-inspired protests awhile, burst out in rare anger: "He can go to hell...
...contributed more than money. War-developed sonar made depth measurements far more sensitive, giving oceanographers a more accurate look at the ocean's bottom than they had ever had before. The new loran, which can fix a ship's position within a quarter of a mile in daylight, night, or in the thickest fog, enabled a far more detailed and accurate study of ocean currents, and oceanographers launched zealously into new studies with their new tools...
Ireland ringing with Parnell's cry: "No man has a right to fix a boundary to the march of a nation." A soft-spoken teacher of math who later joined the Sinn Fein (We Ourselves), "Dev" is still credited by legend with being the last rebel patriot to surrender during the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, and with being one of only 13 scholars who understood Einstein's theory of relativity...
...Labor should win the next election, cast responsibility to the winds. "There is no justification at all for the Geneva talks to break down," said Bevan. "If they do, it will be largely because the Western powers are anxious to avoid a summit conference." As though it might fix things, Bevan added that he and Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell will go to Moscow in August "to try to undo the harm Mr. Macmillan did when he went there...